Cabal

Cabal, a dazzling short novel, is accompanied here by four of Clive Barker's best short stories — ''The Life of Death," "How Spoilers Bleed," "Twilight at the Towers," and "The Last Illusion." Universally hailed by critics as "a master of horror" (San Francisco Chronicle), "a prodigious talent" (The New York Times) and "the new prince of horror" (Time magazine), Clive Barker possesses a rare combination of imagination, style, charm, and fearlessness that adds up to a riveting appeal. Cabal marks a new and ferocious high in Barker's ongoing love affair with the bizarre, the perverse, and the terrifying— it is the story of a young woman willing to cross the borders of the human to be with the man she loves. [From the inside cover.] Cabal is a 1988 horror novella by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the Books of Blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal_(novella) Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you."